When it comes to watching live sport on your television or device Sky is the biggest name within the U.K and Ireland.

They cover a lot of sports on their various Sky Sports channels. Over one in three households within the country use their services. For years they have been providing excellent and exciting coverage of the Premier League.

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What do people like more watching football itself? Betting on it of course. This is where SkyBet comes in. They have not only adopted the brand’s combination, but match their high standards in all possible areas too. They have betting markets on a massive amount of different sports on their website and offer casino and gaming too.

Few firms within the United Kingdom or anywhere for that matter will able to match the promoting practices and backing of Sky.

Website Layout:

The layout of the web site is superb. The colour scheme works well and is appealing on first glance. They sky colours of blue and red are also seen everywhere. Navigation is very simple on the home screen with fast links giving access to any requested section or market.

It’s simple to scroll up and down the screen quickly to seek out precisely what you wish and go from there. The markets also have a lot of depth. It’s one among the better online bookmaker websites that I have seen.

Skybet Mobile/Phone Betting:

Skybet have an Andriod and an IOS application. It’s quite simple to use and to navigate around. It’s extremely fast to travel from menu to menu and to place bets. It’s also simple to deposit and withdraw via the mobile app. No complaints with the app whatever. Skybet also offer a telephone betting service over a freephone number.

Betting Markets:

The list of sports offered is massive and you’ll see all the traditional sports are offered and even some a lot of novelty market bets like T.V & Film Specials and other things such as WWE and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

They have most of the popular sports online including football, horse racing, tennis and golf. What I feel lacking compared to other online betting companies such as Bet365 is that the lack of asian markets within the in play football section.

Bet365 and other bookmakers offer asian markets on most live games where as Skybet don’t. If would greatly help them if they implemented this addition. It would be a welcome addition for most.

The betting markets also includes some tips from various pundits. Alex Hammond is your source for horse racing tips and insights, football betting tips coming from Sky Sports presenter Jamie Redknapp and also Ed Chamberlin provides smart well rounded sports betting advice and tips. All 3 have blogs that may can be accessed and are recommended reads.

Skybet Offers & Promotions:

Skybet often runs promotions that offer price boosts or free bets. You can join Sky Bet nowadays and obtain a £20 free bet once you place your initial bet of £5. Sky Bet also have a ‘Sky Bet Club’ where you can receive £5 weekly after you bet a combined amount of £25 per week. If you miss any week you need to stake £40 to get back into it.

It’s very handy if you like to bet a lot and receive rewards. They also have other promotions such as super 6 football where you have to guess the results of six pre-determined matches to win a big payout. It’s free to enter and is very good fun. Sky Bet also offer a best odds guaranteed offer on horse racing.

So if you place a bet on a horse and it goes off at bigger price than you took, SkyBet will pay you out on winning bets at the bigger odds. This is usually available on all U.K and Irish racing. Also offered are price boosts from time to time which are special increased odds on chosen matches or other sporting events.

These are worth checking out as they can be great value. Overall they have really good promotions and rewards for betting.

Cash Out:

They do tremendously well when it comes to promotions but there cash out offer needs work.

A cash out option is available on some markets on Sky Bet but not all. Sky Bet offer cash out whenever possible. In general, they will try and supply cash out for all relevant bets where all choices included in the original bet are available for gambling at the time of cash out.

When betting is sometimes suspended for any selections concerned in the initial bet, cash out will not be offered. The cash out system needs a lot of work and possibly they need more operators to man the system.

If sky bet offered cash out on most markets they would gain a lot more customers. Cash out has become an option that most punters want nowadays.

Skybet Customer Service:

The live-chat is offered 24/7 and it is a really good part of the website. The response time is often instant unless in a queue. The wait in the queue isn’t long saying that. They also offer help over the phone but I’d suggest this if only in need of urgent help about a bet query etc.

Especially since the call isn’t free for all customers. The email service is helpful but like with most sites the service doesn’t respond quickly and you may need to email a few times to sort your query. Overall the customer service is about average, the the live-chat is pretty good but the telephone and email service needs work.

Conclusion:

They are an honest bookmaker and financially secure, they also work through your sky box so that’s helpful if you want to get a bet on that way. However their service lacks live streaming, a viable cashout service and a live chat help feature. Their strong point is promotions but other firms aren’t far off that level.

Sky Bet have a great backing, advertising campaign and promotions but if they can brush up on some things outlined above I think they could widen their online base. If you are a serious punter and need great in play betting and a decent cash out feature I would go elsewhere.

I would recommend Sky Bet though if you are a passive punter who likes to receive free bets and rewards every week for betting.

9.1Total Score

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Skybet are no different and this well known bookmaker already have one eye on the Festival. Ante Post markets, in running and more, they are a good addition to your Cheltenham Festival portfolio!